Today, Rick osterloh, Google's Hardware Director, confirmed that the company has acquired raxium, a five-year startup with microled technology, which may become the technical guarantee for Google to build a new generation of enhanced, virtual and hybrid reality head displays This also adds to the evidence that Google's next big ar move is getting closer: it previously acquired glasses manufacturer North in 2020, and it is said that the company is still recruiting engineers to build an augmented reality operating system.
We learned in January that Google Labs is building an AR head display called "project iris", which belongs to the same team as the project Starline high-definition video chat demonstration displayed during last year's I / O conference.
When the information first reported last month that Google would buy raxium, it pointed out that MICR OLED Technology may help build ar displays that are more energy-efficient than other solutions, but they still look brightly colored. In addition, raxium is studying the "monolithic integration" of microleds, which means that manufacturing them with the same silicon used by most processors may eventually lead to a significant reduction in product prices. Other companies dedicated to microled ar hardware include oppo , Apple And Vuzix.
Competitors, Microsoft Has passed hololens Delivered an augmented reality device, and apple, meta, snap and other companies are also investing heavily in building their own hardware in order to overlay the information and images of their own platform on the real world.
According to raxium's website, mobile The pixel spacing (the distance between the center of a pixel and the center of another pixel next to it) of the super AMOLED screen on the is about 50 microns, while its microled can achieve the limit distance of about 3.5 microns. It also claims to have "unprecedented efficiency", which is more than five times better than any world record.
Osterloh mentioned impressive size and efficiency in his blog post on the future display technology that raxium could build. He said that the company will join Google's equipment and services team, and its "technical expertise in this field will play a key role in our continued investment in hardware work".
